finning
noun [ U ] uk/?f?n.??/ us/?f?n.??/ (also shark finning, /??ɑ?k ?f?n.??/ /??ɑ?rk ?f?n.??/)
割鳍弃身，捕鲨采翅（割掉鲨鱼的鳍，把身体扔回海洋的做法）
the practice of cutting off sharks' fins (= the thin vertical parts sticking out from their bodies), and throwing their bodies back in the sea
Finning is still practised in some parts of the world. 在世界上的一些地方仍然有捕鲨采翅的做法。
Human activities such as shark finning are destroying these natural wonders. 人类的活动，如捕鲨采翅，正在破坏这些自然奇观。
- More examples
- Efforts to protect sharks have been driven in part by revulsion over finning.
- He learned about finning when he joined the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
- Congress banned shark finning, the practice of discarding a shark's carcass at sea after slicing off its fins, to be sold and used in an expensive delicacy known as shark-fin soup.
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